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Wed Aug-25-04 07:22 AM
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Happy Birthday to Elvis Costello |
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Wed Aug-25-04 07:27 AM
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Edited on Wed Aug-25-04 07:37 AM by skooooo
(edited cause i got wrong lyric)
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Wed Aug-25-04 07:29 AM
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3. "Is She Really Going Out With Him" was by Joe Jackson. |
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Edited on Wed Aug-25-04 07:40 AM by mac56
Not EC. (I changed mine too to match your change.)
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Wed Aug-25-04 07:36 AM
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Wed Aug-25-04 07:30 AM
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...Elvis you lucky dog. HBD!! :toast:
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Wed Aug-25-04 07:31 AM
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5. I bet they make beautiful music together. |
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Wed Aug-25-04 07:29 AM
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2. I guess today he's gonna have to face the deep dark truthful mirror |
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and it's gonna tell him things that we still love him too much to say-hey-hey...
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Wed Aug-25-04 07:32 AM
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6. I heard that this morning and could not believe he was *only* 50... |
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...I had no idea he was only two years older than me. :cry:
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Wed Aug-25-04 07:39 AM
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8. I saw him last weekend |
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I went to see The Boy from OZ starring Hugh Jackman and Elvis was in the audience. Hugh got him to come up on stage and do half a song. I'm not a fan but it was still cool. The audience went nuts.
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Wed Aug-25-04 07:49 AM
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9. Arrrrrgh, a young pup. |
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Wed Aug-25-04 07:50 AM
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Wed Aug-25-04 07:53 AM
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11. But I thought he won't get any older ... |
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Wed Aug-25-04 07:58 AM
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12. Hell, this one's even better. |
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Edited on Wed Aug-25-04 08:05 AM by whoisalhedges
Edited to replace the lyrics of a great song with the lyrics of a better song:
Don't say you love me when it's just a rumour, Don't say a word if there is any doubt. Sometimes I think that love is just a tumour, You've got to cut it out.
You say you're sorry for the things that you've done. You say you're sorry but you know you don't mean it. I wouldn't worry, I had so much fun. Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.
It's you, not just anouther mouth in the lipstick vogue.
Get to the slot machine, almost dead on arrival, Just hit me one more time with that live wire. Maybe they told you you were only a girl in a million, You say I've got no feelings, this is a good way to kill them.
Select the control and then insert the token. You wanna throw me away but I'm not broken. You've got a lot to say--well, I'm not joking. There are some words they don't allow to be spoken. Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.
It's you, not just anouther mouth in the lipstick vogue .
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Wed Aug-25-04 08:01 AM
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13. The greatest living songwriter. |
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They talked to the sister, the father and the mother With a microphone in one hand and a chequebook in the other AND THE CAMERA NOSES IN TO THE TEARS ON HER FACE The tears on her face The tears on her face You can put them back together with your paper and paste But you can't put them back together You can't put them back together
What would you say? What would you do? Children and animals two by two Give me the needle Give me the rope We're going to melt them down for PILLS AND SOAP Give me the needle Give me the rope We're going to melt them down for pills and soap
Four and twenty crowbars, jemmy your desire Out of the frying pan into the fire The king is in the counting house Some folk have all the luck And all we get are pictures of LORD AND LADY MUCK They come from lovely people with a hard line in hypocrisy THERE ARE ASHTRAYS OF EMOTION FOR THE FAG ENDS OF THE ARISTOCRACY
The sugar coated pill is getting bitterer still YOU THINK YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU BUT YOU KNOW IT NEVER WILL So pack up your troubles in a stolen handbag DON'T DILLY DALLY BOYS RALLY ROUND THE FLAG Give us your daily bread in individual slices And something in the daily rag to cancel any crisis
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Wed Aug-25-04 08:07 AM
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We play these parlor games We play at make believe When we get to the part Where I say that I'm going to leave
Everybody loves a happy ending But we don't even try We go straight past pretending To the part where everybody loves to cry
Indoor fireworks Can still burn your fingers Indoor fireworks We swore we were safe as houses They're not so spectacular They don't burn up in the sky But they can dazzle or delight Or bring a tear When the smoke gets in your eyes
You were the spice of life The gin in my vermouth And though the sparks would fly I thought our love was fireproof
Sometimes we'd fight in public darling With very little cause But different kinds of sparks would fly When we got on our own behind closed doors
It's time to tell the truth These things have to be faced My fuse is burning out And all that powder's gone to waste
Don't think for a moment dear That we'll ever be through I'll build a bonfire of my dreams And burn a broken effigy of me and you
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Wed Aug-25-04 08:43 AM
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15. Wow, There Must Be Something Musical abt This B'day (Lennie, Too) |
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Now that you set everybody free What are you going to do about me? Don't want to be treated like some poor grateful clown I'd rather go back to the sweet underground Where I can tell by the colour of my skin And I know my neighbour 'cos he's the one, yes he's the one Who always turns me in
A woman works the tunnel in the middle of the night Picking up every lost object in sight Handbags, toupees, lost legs and fingernails The black market eats up all your failures Her transistor offers no salvation or regrets No pool, no pets, no cigarettes Just non-stop Disco Tex and the Sex-o-lettes
CHORUS There's no name, no name for the place or pain we'll cause you again and again If you do not co-operate with the Invasion Hit Parade
The liberation forces make movies of their own Playing their Doors records and pretending to be stoned Drowning out a broadcast that wasn't authorised Incidentally the revolution will be televised With one head for business and another for good looks Until they started arriving with their rubber aprons and their butcher's hooks
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They're hunting us down here with Liberty's light A handshaking double talking procession of the mighty Pursued by a T.V. crew and coming after them A limousine of singing stars and their brotherhood anthem The former dictator was impeccably behaved They're mopping up all the stubborn ones who just refuse to be saved
CHORUS
Happy B-Day EC.
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Wed Aug-25-04 09:18 AM
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17. Happy Birthday Declan. |
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Here's my fave. What a poet.
So this is where he came to hide When he ran from you In a private detective's overcoat And dirty dead man's shoes The pretty things of Knightsbridge Lying for a minister of state Are a far cry from the nod and wink Here at traitor's gate
'Cause the high heel he used to be has been ground down And he listens for the footsteps that would follow him around
To murder my love is crime But will you still love A man out of time
There's a tuppeny hapenny millionaire Looking for a fourpenny one With a tight grip on the short hairs Of the public imagination
But for his private wife and kids somehow Real life becomes a rumour Days of dutch courage Just three French letters and a German sense of humour
He's got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge He stands to be insulted and he pays for the privilege
The biggest wheels of industry Retire sharp and short And the after dinner overtures Are nothing but an after thought Somebody's creeping in the kitchen There's a reputation to be made Whose nerves are always on a knife's edge Who's up late polishing the blade
Love is always scarpering or cowering or fawning You drink yourself insensitive and hate yourself in the morning
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Wed Aug-25-04 09:24 AM
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18. Happy birthday to Elvis |
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Since we're posting lyrics to celebrate...
History repeats the old conceits The glib replies the same defeats Keep your finger on important issues With crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues I'm just the oily slick On the windup world of the nervous tick In a very fashionable hovel
I hang around dying to be tortured You'll never be alone in the bone orchard This battle with the bottle is nothing so novel
So in this almost empty gin palace Through a two-way looking glass You see your Alice
You know she has no sense For all your jealousy In a sense she still smiles very sweetly
Charged with insults and flattery Her body moves with malice Do you have to be so cruel to be callous
And now you find you fit this identikit completely You say you have no secrets And then leave discreetly
I might make it California's fault Be locked in Geneva's deepest vault Just like the canals of Mars and the great barrier reef I come to you beyond belief
My hands were clammy and cunning She's been suitably stunning But I know there's not a hope in Hades All the laddies cat call and wolf whistle So-called gentlemen and ladies Dog fight like rose and thistle
I've got a feeling I'm going to get a lot of grief Once this seemed so appealing Now I am beyond belief
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